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Ben Hazel Primary School

This solar water heating system at Ben Hazel Primary School in Hampton County, SC will have a drastic impact, reducing their monthly water heating bill by 60%.

St. Christopher Project

The summer camp manager’s home was the first system completed at the St. Christopher Project and it will produce 75% of all the hot water used in a year by the residents.

Runaway Bay Restaurant

This solar water heating system at the Runaway Bay Restaurant at Waterfront Park in the Noisette Naval Yard in North Charleston will service well over half of the restaurants hot water demand annually.

Jaime’s Lodge

The largest installation to date for SES. This systems has 8 collectors piped together with 4- 120 gallon storage tanks, and 2 -15 gallon drainback tanks. Producing 256,000 btu’s of thermal energy per sunny day! This system will account for over 20% of the building’s energy usage every year.

Solar News

Where the U.S. Solar Industry Is Shining

U.S. companies that lease panels to homeowners thrive

There’s at least one bright spot in the troubled U.S. solar industry. After a plunge in prices sent panel manufacturers reeling, consumer demand for the alternative energy is soaring. That’s a boon for California companies such as SunRun, SolarCity, and Sungevity. These startups are buying panels at depressed prices and leasing them to homeowners at little or no up-front cost.

WASHINGTON, Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit working to eliminate energy poverty through the use of solar power, today announced that it is launching “Energy is a Human Right,” a campaign to provide a voice to the nearly 1.5 billion people around the world living without access to electricity and other forms of modern energy. It is also calling upon the international development community and general public to join the campaign by visiting www.EnergyIsAHumanRight.com to show their support for those living in energy poverty, and to learn how they can help provide energy access to assist in their economic, education, health and agricultural development.